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(||p? mfft-wp 1 I * ;^!^> ?: J" *'•»*? U",; ";' .-" ^\Jf t ; -V ' r* •** - FOOT Of PUBLIC SERVICE BQHOBED DECEM ittin t Recognition of fast thinking and prompt action on the part of four Public Service company employees who saved four Uvea in 1953 was made Tuesday, Dec. tt at a conference of utility of* fidals in Chicago, where each received life saving medals. Hie presentation of the Brittod J. Budd Medals for the Saving of Human Life was mad* to George Brooker, Wheaton, Warren Hawkins, LaGMinge, James Kinsley, Lockport, and , George Koehler, Piano. The four 1953 awards bring \ tit total number of persons to receive the medal to 15 since it was established twenty-eight years ago by Mr. Budd, former president and vice-chairman of the utility. Its purpose is to stimulate interest in safety and preparedness and to give recognition for outstanding examples of prompt action and presence of mind In coping with physical emergencies. Quick thinking and prompt action by Brooker, a gas operating department employee in thi* area, saved a woman's life. She - bad started across the railroad tracks )ti Wheaton unaware of an approaching fast train when Brooker thrust her to safety seconds/ before a streamliner Whined past. Hawkins, a gas customers' service department employee in Bellwood, used the new backpressure arm-lift method of resuscitation (learned in a company class) to save the life of his nephew who had been accidentally buried in a sand pile cave-in. Kinsley, using the new pole lap arm-lift method of resuscitation, saved the life of a Joliet ^ electric operating associate vtito had accidentally contacted a live frtre while helping transfer | transmission lines to new poles. S Koehler's prompt ^action in 'summoning medical assistance is credited by the attending physi clan as a major factor in saving tie life of a Piano woman whom he found unconscious on the floor of her home ..... EVENTSr BE DROPPED, PROM '54 FESTIVAL Five events will be dropped and two events added to the 1954 Illinois Farm .Sports Festival, it was announced by Roy Will, director of special services for the Illinois Agricultural association. Will Said the 1954 festival finals will be held Aug. 26 and 27 on the University of Illinois campus, Urban a. Some events in the festival will be held before then, the first being Rural Youth and open class square and folk dancing Feb. 2 at the University. Competition for square dance callers and square dance bands will also be held there that day. The annual festival for Illinois Farm Bureau members is sponsored by the IAA and the ninety, nine County Farm Bureaus, with the cooperation of the University, Agrietttural Extension Ser- -rice, Oovnty Home Bureaus, Prairie F«rrmer-WLS, and other organisations. Chair quoits, clock golf, dart throwing and shuffleboard events wgl be. dropped because of lack of participation the last few years. Will said the festival administrative committee has voted to add a junior tug o' war event to the 1954 program. The event will be limited to male 4-H and Future Farmers of America members. The 4-H Share-the-Fun festival portion of the program will also be dropped next year. The committee voted to award participation points to counties holding music and drama festivals in preparation for that event at the University's Farm and Home Week. Other actions of the committee: ~ 1. Players participating in the district bowling event* wflt' be charged an advance entry f*e. 2. District bowling awards Will be given to first and second place winners in each bowling class. 3. A trap and skeet shoot committee will be appointed to set the time and place for the 1054 trap and skeet event. 4. A participant will be Allowed to enter no more than two events on one day during the August finals. 5. Individuals must represent only the county in which t^eir membership, is held at U* ttaf* of competition. • If we work hard and others don't spend our money faster than we make it, we may find ourselves better off in 1979 titan we are right now. Want Ada. Ike tuedii, are everybody's business. NEW HIGHWAY ENGINEER NAMED ' Governor William G. Stratton, at a press conference Thursday, announced the appointment of Ralph R. Bartelsmeyer of Belleville as chief highway engineer. Bartelsmeyer, 44, has more than twenty years .experience in highway engineering. He succeeds Frank N. Barker, who resigned this year. Bartelsmeyer's appointment became effective Dec. 15.. The governor stated it will be the responsibility of Bartelsmeyer to carry out a 1954 road construction program that will cast more than $85,000,000. Of that cost some $12,000,000 will be used in extending the four lane highway on U.S. 66, Governor Stratton said 82 miles will be added to the four lane project next year. The 1954 work will extend the four lane stretch to Chenoa on the north and Mt, Olive on the south. Near Mt. Olive, the governor said, the state's first toll road is scheduled to start. The road will run south to St. Louis, Mo. Mi- ' « Tlie governor saM Hlk»is "had a good state fair in 1953" "it can be improved." When questioned about increased operating costs, he said, "If you want an agricultural fair you /have got to subsidise it." rouyiiave He rReeaaffffiirrmm ee d his conviction that Illinois should have an open primary election next spring. He WE DRESS YOUR FLOORS & WINDOWS SBE OUR COMPLETE LINE LINOLEUM - TILE - CARPETING • DRAPES - CURTAINS - RODDING • VENETIAN and VERTICAL BLINDS ' PHONE 917 for Free Estimate TONYAN'S HOME FURNISHINGS 208 E. ELM STREET McHENRY, ILL. that • was fit* other entitled to their own (fee matter. 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